<para>
These utilities provide an infrastructure to facilitate the use of CVS by
Debian maintainers. This allows one to keep separate CVS branches of a package
-for <emphasis>stable</emphasis>, <emphasis>unstable</emphasis> and possibly
-<emphasis>experimental</emphasis> distributions, along with the other benefits
+for <literal>stable</literal>, <literal>unstable</literal> and possibly
+<literal>experimental</literal> distributions, along with the other benefits
of a version control system.
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